Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the worries in his heart, Chu Mo looked at Kong Xiaomei and said with deep eyes:

"I have heard about your family before."

"Although this matter has something to do with me, if you want to blame it, it's your family's bad luck for being favored by Chief Liu."

"You can't say that."

As soon as Chu Mo spoke, he was directly interrupted by Kong Xiaomei.

"Uncle, if you hadn't asked my brother to help you before, our family would not have been targeted by the village chief and others, let alone driven out by them."

"My brother was jealous of the village chief because of you. He hurt our family because he helped you."

"Now something happened to our family, how can you stay out of it?"

Facing Kong Xiaomei's question, Chu Mo raised the corners of his mouth slightly, ignored Kong Xiaomei, and looked at Kong Bufan and asked:

"Shusheng Kong, after you helped me before and took me to the village chief's house, did I give you 2 silver coins as a reward for your hard work?"

Seeing Chu Mo ask about him, Kong Bufan immediately nodded in panic and replied with a red face:

"Yes, the student is indeed greedy for money, sir, please don't laugh at me."

Hearing Kong Bufan's answer, Chu Mo smiled slightly, looked at Kong Xiaomei jokingly and said:

"You also heard that your brother and I are just in an employment relationship. After the transaction is completed, both of us have settled the money and goods. The rest of the matter has nothing to do with me."

"How can you say that? It's obviously you..."

Kong Xiaomei didn't expect that Chu Mo had already prepared and sent her brother away with 2 coins, and she immediately wanted to argue with him.

But Kong Bufan, who was on the side, saw this and hurriedly stepped forward and pulled this ignorant sister behind him, stopping her from continuing to speak.

Then he bowed to Chu Mo again:

"Sir, my sister is being unreasonable. Please don't blame me, sir."

After saying that, he signaled to his younger brother and older sister with his eyes to control the younger sister and prevent her from talking nonsense and offending Chu Mo.

Regarding Kong Bufan's approach, Chu Mo smiled noncommittally and said:

"No problem, your sister is very brave, but she is much more useful than your brother."

After hearing Chu Mo's words, Kong Bufan's face changed from red to green, and then from green to purple. His face changed several times. Then he smiled sarcastically, lowered his head, and did not dare to look at Chu Mo.

Seeing this situation, Chu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly. At this moment, how could he not see that Kong Bufan was just a pedantic scholar.

This visit was probably the girl's idea.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the Kong family again and asked curiously:

"I don't think your family is a wealthy one. How can you afford to support a scholar like you?"

Seeing that Chu Mo took the initiative to change the topic and had no intention of pursuing his little sister, Kong Bufan breathed a sigh of relief and then hurriedly replied:

"Sir, you just came from the Tang Dynasty. You may not know the customs and customs of the Great Zhou Dynasty very well."

"Since Her Majesty the Empress established her dynasty, I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, have set up schools extensively in pursuit of educating people without distinction."

"Every child over the age of 7 must enter the school to study. No one is allowed to interfere, otherwise it is a crime."

"The student's family is fortunate enough to study in the school thanks to the grace of Her Majesty the Empress."

After hearing Kong Bufan's words, Chu Mo became interested instantly.

If he hadn't heard Kong Bufan's introduction this time, he really wouldn't have known that Chu Xin had such courage.

"When a family like yours enters the school, even if the school doesn't accept you, the annual cost of pens, ink, paper and inkstones must be a lot. How do you solve it?"

"No, no, no, sir, our pens, inks, papers and inkstones are all specially distributed by the imperial court. Since Her Majesty the Empress opened the school, she has promoted an extremely cheap paper and charcoal pens. Even if the school does not provide them, people like us will Ordinary families can also afford it.”

Chu Mo was even more shocked when he heard what Kong Bufan said.

He didn't expect that Mrs. Chu Chuxin would be so courageous. Not only did she promote compulsory education, but she also distributed free pens, inks, paper and inkstones. He just didn't know if the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty was enough to support it.

But what Chu Mo didn't know was that the reason Chu Xin was able to have such financial resources and promote a series of her policies was entirely based on her country's military fighting abroad and plundering a large amount of supplies from various countries to support it.

"So according to what you said, your family, not only you, but also your younger brothers and sisters, are all literate?"

"That's natural. You don't know that as long as you go to school and achieve success in your studies, like my brother, and become a boy student, not only will you be exempted from all the training every year, but the court will also give out a reward of 2 taels of silver, as well as monthly Thirty pounds of fine grain and three sets of clothes for all seasons."

Before Kong Bufan could speak, Kong Xiaomei jumped out again and answered proactively.

Seeing that Chu Mo had no intention of blaming her, Kong Bufan breathed a sigh of relief and glared at his sister fiercely, but he was not as cautious as before.

"Isn't Tongsheng the unified title you use when you enter the school, regardless of your age, before you obtain the title of scholar? Then shouldn't those of you who have also entered the school be Tongsheng?"

After hearing Kong Xiaomei's explanation, Chu Mo asked doubtfully.

"What do you know, uncle, in our Zhou Dynasty, those who enter the school can only be regarded as students. Only those who pass the exam and advance to a higher school before the age of 13 can be called Tongsheng."

"As for the scholar you mentioned, that is a certification that needs to pass the assessment of the imperial court and the county government."

Kong Xiaomei looked at Chu Mo with disdain and explained again.

Faced with Kong Xiaomei's disdain, Chu Mo didn't take it to heart at all.

At this time, he was somewhat curious about Chu Xin's series of actions.

Just as he was about to continue asking, a secret guard suddenly ran in from outside the door and said something in Chu Ruowan's ear.

After hearing the secret guard's report, Chu Ruowan also hurriedly stepped forward and whispered in Chu Mo's ear:

"Sir, a large group of officers and soldiers came from outside the village and surrounded the whole village. It seems that the people who came here are evil."

Hearing what Chu Ruowan said, Chu Mo couldn't help but frown, waved to Kong Bufan's family, and asked people to take them down and live here temporarily.

After hearing Chu Mo's arrangement, the entire Kong family was overjoyed, but they also knew that Chu Mo would have something to talk about, so they did not dare to delay any further. After thanking him sincerely, they followed the secret guard out.

"You said a group of officers and soldiers came from outside the village?"

Seeing everyone leaving, Chu Mo turned to look at Chu Ruowan.

"Yes, sir, they surrounded the village as soon as they arrived. It seems that they came with bad intentions."